While Microsoft may have shut down a number of older apps over the past few months, the company is reportedly busy working on new ones for both Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. Two sites reportedly have some inside info on three such apps, including one that has been designed to help Windows Phone 8.1 device owners upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile.

WMPU has posted information on the upgrade advisor app, which has not officially been confirmed by Microsoft. Their story states that it has been created to inform Windows Phone 8.1 device owners if their smartphone can in fact be upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile. If it can, the app can also help with freeing up internal storage space so the upgrade can proceed.

Sister site Microsoft-News.com has posted word on two more upcoming Microsoft-developed apps. One is designed to help track package deliveries, while the other is a remote PC authenticator. Here's the company's description for that latter app.

"The first step towards a world without passwords! After a quick Bluetooth sync, use this app to unlock your Windows 10 computer at work. Just open the app and tap on a nearby computer. Note: This app is still in beta. Future versions will include support for Microsoft account, a sign in solution for browsers and VPN. one-time passcode generation, and MFA approval through notifications."

Keep in mind that all of these apps have not been officially confirmed by Microsoft as being in development. It's also possible that the company could decide not to release one or more of these apps to the public.

Why? This seems like a waste of resources. We alrready know that every phone that was released with WP8 CAN be updated to W10M but because of cariers, OEMs and even Microsoft, it's only going to be released on some devices with 1 GB of ram which to me doesn't make any sense considering that W10M has run fine on my 635 with 512 mbs of ram.

Ms should give more attention to WM on their websites, some minutes ago a customer sent me an email if there is outlook app for windows mobile due to the ms website (link) do not show it and it seems to hide windows phone (no windows store banner)

Pretty much any website that uses two factor authentication will work with the current Authenticator, I've been using it for over a year with Gmail, Microsoft and Facebook so don't know where you got that from.

Yeah, that Authenticator protocol is universal and used by alot of websites and services these days. Anyways this mobile authenticator is interesting, this should be baked to OS and serve as a universal digital key to unlock your Windows PC and other apps and services that needs authetication.

No one here is saying those two apps are same. Read first my comment again. This thread is only about the Authenticator app. For which I said the new app looks promising. That's sufficient to differentiate b/w the two apps. Everyone else is too talking about the former app. So, in hurry of "milking it" (Lol xD), you milked yourself too. (God knows what does that even mean). You're half right - about the Account app.

Well, at least one person reading this thread got the impression that it was the same app and that it had been available for a long while already. He also mentioned something about someone (me) being a hater.

Then he deleted the comment when I posted it wasn't the same app. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nope. I never said that both apps were the same. You simply started blasting out that Android and iOS has this new app. I never actually said "Microsoft Account and Authenticator apps are the same" in actual words. I just said that there is one app available in the store which is pretty useful and Microsoft has not orphaned the WP users as you had said earlier. You look kinda fractious xD